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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

He loved Hollywood's cop vs baddies movies

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After they brought Meghalaya Police officer Raymond E Diengdoh home in a coffin, his father cursed himself for not being able to convince his son to become a treasury officer, not a police officer.

But there was honour in this death, and his 32year-old son was a hero, 60-year-old Phillip Basaiawmoit soon found out.

"If I had another son, I would have made him join the police or army to root out violence," he said.

He doesn't have another son. So Evagracia, the eldest of his three daughters, who worked as a junior executive in a travel agency in Bangalore after completing a masters in tourism administration, quit and returned home to become a police sub-inspector and live out her brother dream.

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Shame in Orissa

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A Christian soldier who fought in the 1999 Kargil war against Pakistan is in a refugee camp today after he and his family were driven out from their native village by Hindu mobs.

Motilal Pradhan of the 244 Medium Artillery regiment lost one of his brothers when his house in the riot-ravaged Kandhamal district was set on fire on August 24.

"I have fought against ULFA (the Assam militant group), served in insurgency-infested Baramulla region and fought in Drass sector during the Kargil War. We were called Drass Devils," he told HT as he stood in the middle of the government-run refugee center - one of the two such centers - in Bhubaneswar. There are around 500 others like him at the center.

"But now," Motilal said, "I cannot return to my own village." Motila1and several others have got a message from his village: reconvert to Hinduism and then think of returning to Gadragaon.

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